Articles
by Muguette Goufrani
Muguette
Goufrani Muguette's
background as an airline agent, tour guide
and travel agency professional has been
the key to her media success, resulting in
an ATA Travel Industry Founders Award in
Cape Town, South Africa two years ago. As
a "career globetrotter," Muguette's
articles for Air Highways and Africa
Travel Magazine have an authentic,
multicultural flavor, thanks to
painstaking research and the confidence of
having lived the experience (walked the
walk).
Her
career positions have included Royal Air
Maroc, AOL
Airlines,
Air Afrique, Matson Lines, Palm Springs
Resorts, Club Med, Tahiti Tours and Noumea
Tours. Upon graduating from College du
Paris, she launched her career in
Casablanca,
Morocco,
where the Goufrani family has operated a
tour company for generations. Award
in Africa A
dual citizen (France -
Canada)
and member of Vancouver, BC, Canada's
Francophone
Community,
Muguette prompted the decision to make our
travel magazines bilingual, extending
their worldwide reach and influence Aside
from our own publications and web sites,
Muguette has been featured extensively on
African television, radio and print media,
both English and French. Her first
assignment was the 1996 ATA Ecotourism
Symposium in Marrakech, Morocco. This was
followed by a National Geographic -
American Airlines sponsored project in
Haiti, plus ATA Congresses in Benin,
Tanzania, Ghana, Ethiopia and South
Africa. Her most recent extended trips to
Africa, were Congresses and overland land
tours of Cameroon (December 2001) and
Guinea (May 2002). Muguette returns to
Africa in December 2002, for an ATA event
in Fez, Morocco, following a Cross Canada
Road Show Tour and a Conference in
Atlantic
City,
New Jersey. Next year's African agenda
includes events in Zambia and Tanzania.
Travel Agents wishing to join her are
invited to e-mail Africa@dowco.com The
World Scene: Muguette's
travels have included Europe, the
Americas, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, China,
Japan, Russia, Australia the Caribbean,
and most of Europe. Active with the
Africa
Travel Association
and
PATA, she focuses her efforts on tourism
to and from the world's Francophone
community. Muguette has lived and worked
in
seven African countries - Morocco,
Algeria, Gabon, Cote d'Ivoire,
Senegal,
Madagascar and Seychelles. She has also
worked in Guadeloupe, Tahiti, New
Caledonia, Cambodia, India, France,
Canada, Alaska, California, New York and
Nevada. Other travels have included
Western Europe, South America, Vietnam,
Laos, Cambodia, Japan, Russia, Greece and
Australia Association
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